This course looks at the history of the U.S. from the outside in. We'll focus on genres like journalism, travel narratives, and documentary film in order to consider the ways in which people experience and analyze U.S foreign policy from the outside. We'll discuss the ways 'outsider' perspectives can shed new light on both global opinion of U.S. foreign policy and American national identity. Writing assignments for the course will provide students with opportunities to explore their own relationships to national identity, critique public discourse around U.S policy, and participate in contemporary debates about the politics of internationalism and imperialism.

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